User talk:Blarg56

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==Gerritsen Beach edits; 1st warning== Please desist from vandalizing the Gerritsen Beach article. The proper spelling of the community is Gerritsen, not Gerrittsen, unless you can provide proof to the contrary.

The page is being watched and similar edits will be reverted on sight and will, if you continue, likely result in your being blocked from editing. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 15:11, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, but...

 * Hi. Thanks for providing a basis for your point. Nonetheless, the same link (www.gbfd.net) also states that: "GERRITSEN BEACH, NY – On March 5, 2010 at approximately 1:00 p.m. firefighters from the Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department responded to a large brush fire in the weeded area along Gerritsen Avenue off of Gotham Avenue."
 * I would therefore suspect that whoever typed the page to which you referred misspelled or mistyped the community name with two "t"s rather than one. If you live in the Brooklyn area perhaps you could call and verify, but I suspect it is a misspelling or mistyping. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 15:19, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

P.S.: The following Google searches by both spellings (see bleow) appear to back up my point. If you think about it it doesn't really make sense that the VFD would spell its name differently than the community in general.
 * Google search with spelling "Gerritsen"
 * Google search with spelling "Gerrittsen"

Yours, Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 15:34, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * OK updated accordingly as an anomaly. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 21:25, 11 December 2010 (UTC)